The Lord’s Taverners Ireland is a charity for young people with additional needs.

Our Mission
To give young people with additional needs a sporting chance. We believe that sport and recreation are essential to development. We are passionate about helping to create more opportunities for young people to take part in these activities.
Young people with additional needs are less than half as likely to take part in sport at least once a week than young people without a disability.
Our Impact
We help to achieve this mission by focusing on two key areas and donating – minibuses, specially adapted where necessary and sports and recreational equipment, including sports wheelchairs.
To date, we have donated:
Minibuses
Sports Wheelchairs and Sports Bikes
Supported Sport Clubs
Our Partnerships
Lord Taverner’s Ireland has maintained a great partnership with Cricket Leinster in recent years. As their preferred charity partner, we have also supported them through our collaborative work with the Table Cricket Programme.
The Irish Wheelchair Association has also been a great support to Lord’s Taverners Ireland. Through them, the charity has been fortunate to identify and help many clubs and individuals across Ireland to acquire specialised minibuses and sporting equipment.
Throughout its history the Lord’s Taverners Ireland has also benefitted greatly from the advice and support provided by The Lord’s Taverners UK including the three directors nominated to serve on our Board, initially John Hooper and Leo Callow and most recently Tom Rodwell.
News
We had a ball at our Christmas Lunch!
Why not join us in 2023 on 14th December?
We recently celebrated our annual Christmas lunch at the Intercontinental Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin, following two years of cancellations due to covid pandemic restrictions and we all had a ball!
Which is why we are now delighted to announce the dates for our Christmas 2023 lunch as Thursday, 14th December. Make sure you pop the date in the diary and keep an eye on our website for further details. You can be guaranteed of a great day out with friends, a delicious meal and lots of laughs! To express early interest in booking a table, visit our events page here.
The Christmas lunch has always been our main fundraising event of the year, ensuring that we can continue to give young people a sporting chance by raising much needed funds to purchase specialised sports equipment and minibuses.
2022 was a brilliant day, have a look for yourself by visiting our gallery of event pics! Maybe you’ll join us next year? Keep your eyes peeled for our event video too!

If you missed the Christmas lunch this year but would like to make a donation please visit our online donation link here or by cheque to our Honorary Treasurer PETER LACY, 14 PARK LANE, SANDYMOUNT, DUBLIN 4, thereby helping children with additional needs to engage in sporting activities. Your support would be greatly appreciated.